8,000 DRAFT BOARD vacancies to be filled by Spring 2005! I told you so!!

[Dems Will Win]

June 15, 2005 will be the first DRAFT LOTTERY of 20 year-olds, IMHO.

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/story.asp?ID=4188

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They stopped the draft when I was 10; we lost the war two years later. I never had to resolve the terrible dilemma that drove those kids on the wanted posters to flee to Canada. Were they pacifists or were they wimps? Everyone knew that Vietnam wasn't winnable. Was it wrong to refuse to die for nothing, or was it good sense? Was defending the corrupt South Vietnamese regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu "fighting for your country"? Even if a war was both winnable and moral -- World War II, say -- was forcing a human being to risk death and dismemberment a form of slavery?

War is the riskiest and gravest endeavor that can be undertaken by a nation-state. Defensive combat, the struggle for self-preservation, is the only kind of war a just and prudent nation may wage. Unless an overwhelming majority of a country's citizens agree that a war is necessary -- a real war like Iraq or Vietnam, not a lark like Grenada or Panama -- it cannot be won. And a country united by the consensus that it must fight doesn't need a draft. Citizens will line up to volunteer.

In early November, the Pentagon website DefendAmerica.mil put out a call for applicants willing to serve on Selective Service System draft boards. "Serve Your Community and the Nation -- Become a Selective Service System Local Board Member," the ad read. "If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 local and appeal boards throughout America would decide which young men who submit a claim receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on federal guidelines." Noting that the SSS hopes to fill its 8,000 draft board slots by spring 2005, many journalists are wondering aloud whether the Bush administration plans to reinstate forced conscription of 18-to-26-year-olds after the election, just on time for invasions of Iran, Syria and/or North Korea.

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Here is the Draft Readiness Plan:

http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

And the new 2003 "Register" magazine that explains the new Special Skills DRAFT which will induct computer specialists, linguists and engineers and any other job DoD requests, age 20 to 44, man or woman! Also the Health Care DRAFT which will force 3.4 million men and women 20 to 44 to register at the local PO.

http://www.sss.gov/PDFs/NovDec2003-Register.pdf (Page 6)

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

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3. Added the links PLUS the SSS put their recruitment ad BACK UP -- on the

Home page this time.

http://www.sss.gov

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7. It's from the original "Scrubbed" Draft Board notice story

They said they wanted to fill all the empty slots within 18 months if I remember. That's why Rall says many journalists know this for a fact. Trying to find the quote from the SSS spokesman...

[number6]

2. its cold, I feel a draft...

:scared: BUSH '04 = Disaster '05 '06 '07 ....

[wanderingbear]

4. Over my dead body and many of theirs!!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. make this an issue

[Cloud]

8. I have a question

I have asthma. I still need to take an inhaler after I excersize on a regular basis. I know that disqualifies me from volunteering for the service. Will it disqualify me from the draft too?

Yet another reason to vote dem in 04.

[The Undertaker]

9. If Bush and his fellow Republicans wanna fight so much...

I say we should send all their sorry asses overseas and fight and in turn get rid of the draft all together. Easy enough.

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. I'm starting to smell constant wars.

That's what the Neocons want. After Iraq, it will be someone else.

Well, they won't ge me. I was drafted and did my 2 years during
Vietnam. I did the 2 years because it would have absolutely broken
my father's heart if I had opted for Canada. I don't sense that kind
of loyality today. The mothers and fathers of today didn't go through the depression or WWII. They're concerned about terrorism, but drafting their kids and sending them off to constant wars will go over about as well as Barney arresting all the women in Mayberry. The backlash will start from the very beginning this time.

[izzie]

11. I hated the draft but now think I may have been wrong.

If every had to serve would not war be harder to start? Every one would have something in to it and now it is only the people fighting in Iraq. Businesses are pulling in the money.I think every one would have to go and you know that will not happen with Bush.But if everyone had to go would not fighting stop?

[wuushew]

12. The war has already started however

call it the ongoing Gulf War II or the perpetual war on terror, the fresh recruits will simply be fed into the machine enabled by the Patriot Act and vague IRW. There is no stopping it, sheep outnumber free thinkers by orders of magnitude. The war rages on.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Lemme see who in history did the constant war thingy

Rome, The Mongols(Khans), and The Axis Powers, among others. They all went Bad, meaning in the end, the quest for land/control died and the offending Nation went sour. Can it happen to the USA??

Why not?

[radfringe]

14. If every had to serve would not war be harder to start?

yes, it might - but as we all know "everyone" doesn't serve or serve in the same capacity. With the right amount written on a check and/or having the right connections you can get a deferment for anal cysts or be assigned to a "safe" area - like defending the skies over Texas

[leftchick]

15. It should not be just the journalists wondering.....

How about our democratic representatives in cogress and the Democratic cadidates? HELLO!!!!

[Zech Marquis]

16. holy shit, they could draft ME!

well, I'm sure Rummy already knows I'm fluent in japanese, and tthey probaly have my draft notice all warmed and ready to go :eyes: BTW that would be under the special skills draft. Men and women, ages 20 to 44 :wow:

Even more chilling-mission of the SSS is to "provide trained and untrained personnel to the DoD, in the event of a national emergency"

Hello Japan airlines? I want a one way ticket to Osaka! :evilgrin: